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English: Woodcut showing World Columbian's Exposition Company president Harlow Higinbotham opening the first kegs of Columbian Exposition half dollars which had been sent from the United States Mint at Philadelphia. This took place on 12/19/1892.
Date December 19 or 20, 1892
Source Chicago Daily Inter Ocean, December 20, 1892, reproduced (source and date given) in The Numismatist, June 2011, p. 242
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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